OIE Publishes 2011 Edition of World Animal Health

November 14, 2012 — 

World Animal Health offers a synthesis of animal health information from 166 countries and territories around the world, including both OIE Members (178 in May 2012) and non OIE Members and provides a unique tool for all those involved in animal production, wildlife disease surveillance, international trade in animals and animal products and the epidemiology and control of animal diseases, including zoonoses. The 2011 edition carries over the improvements already included in the previous edition by allowing countries and territories to report their animal health status in domestic and wildlife populations separately, when relevant. This helps in improving surveillance and transparency in the notification of diseases in wild species, without putting in place unjustified trade barriers that are not complying with the provisions of the specific chapters of the OIE Terrestrial and Aquatic animal health Codes.

World Animal Health is published in two volumes comprising for 2011 542 and 582 pages respectively. It provides tables of data on OIE-listed diseases and their impact in each country/territory, with details of the control and prevention measures applied. For each of the diseases/infections reported present, the tables indicate the number of outbreaks and the number of susceptible animals, cases and deaths. The last section of the publication gives data at the national level on animal populations, veterinary staff resources, national Reference Laboratories and their diagnostic tests, vaccine capabilities and zoonotic disease cases in humans. Recent information on worldwide animal health situation is available on near real time through WAHID Interface accessible from this link: http://www.oie.int/wahid

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Source: OIE